I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.